Royals vendor heaves bag of peanuts to upper deck at Kauffman Stadium (video)
October 24, 2014 at 2:40 PM
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From the standpoint of the Kansas City Royals, the throw made by the peanut vendor in the video above might have been the only meaningful highlight from Game 1 of the World Series. Sure, slugger Salvador Perez hit a home run late in the ballgame to get the Royals on the scoreboard, but a 7-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants was emotionally deflating from the time that Hunter Pence hit a two-run homer in the first. Taking over when the ballclub otherwise was having a down night, Ace Peanut Man pleased the fans in right field by making a gargantuan toss from the lower-deck seats and reaching the pointy seats at the end of the upper tank at Kauffman Stadium. By the reaction of fans who witnessed it live, this throw does not seem routine. Neither is the payment: $5. We don't see the vendor catch the money, but we definitely see it wadded up and thrown from the fan. Hopefully he tipped the guy with a $10 bill. To get a spacial idea of this transaction, here's a Flickr photo of the right-field corner: Here's a photo illustrated with the approximate trajectory of the peanut tossing:
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